Bug#32448: debian-policy: policy(section 3.3.4) still suggests /etc/rc.boot instead of /etc/rcS.d

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> At 14:48 +0100 1999-05-30, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> >I second this, and propose that the section should be reworded as
> >follows:
> >
> >3.3.4. Boot-time initialisation
> >-------------------------------
> >
> >     There used to be another directory, `/etc/rc.boot', which
> >     contained scripts which were run once per machine boot.  This has
> >     been deprecated in favour of links from /etc/rcS.d to files in
> >     /etc/init.d as described in section 3.3.1.  No packages may place
> >     files in /etc/rc.boot.
> 
> There needs to be something about the fact that rcS scripts matching 
> the pattern *.sh are sourced by /etc/init.d/rcS; and should not 
> necessarily be required to support all of the standard arguments.

Why should they not be?  Which ones should they be?  Anyway, this
belongs with report #33826 (cc'ing).

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg